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Businesses in the northeast part of Lawrence County are gearing up for the 8th Annual New Wilmington Area Business Expo.
The Expo takes place 10 - 4 on Saturday, March 13, at the Westminster College Field House.
That's coincides with the first day of Westminster's Spring Break.
Organizers will register local businesses in the next few weeks preparing for the day long showcase.
A Lawrence County judge won't be making a decision any time soon when it comes to the murder case against a 12-year old Wampum boy accused or murdering his father's pregnant girlfriend last winter.
The judge is giving the prosecution another month to have mental health experts evaluate Brown.
Pennsylvania law mandates the boy face charges as an adult.
However, Brown's attorneys made arguments on Friday that the case against Brown should be bumped down to juvenile court.
A Mercer County judge has scaled back a $1.6 million verdict won by the widow of a motorcyclist killed when he collided with a Mercer County Housing Authority truck.
Judge Thomas Dobson reduced the verdict Friday because the various types of damages against government agencies are capped at $250,000.
State police say an 8-year-old Amish boy has died a day after he was accidentally shot while hunting raccoons with relatives this week.
State police said Rudy Shetler, of Fredonia, was shot in the head when a rifle accidentally discharged at about 10:10 p.m. Monday in a wooded area of Delaware Township.
He was flown by helicopter to Children's Hospital.
The 326th Quartermaster Company based in Lawrence County departed to Haiti on Sunday to help with earthquake relief efforts. The unit will first stop at Fort Dix in New Jersey before flying to Haiti.
Some 80 reservists received a short send-off ceremony from family members and friends Sunday morning at the 326th's center in New Castle.
Members of the 326th will provide water purification support in the Haitian capitol which was damaged by a massive earthquake recently.
It's getting more and more difficult to find someone who doesn't own a digital camera.
It's one of the most popular gifts to give these days.
Almost everywhere you go you can find someone taking photos-either of something they just seem to be passing or to capture a memory.
What should you look for when buying a camera, and how can you get the most out of your purchase?
Listen to WCN 24/7's Lori Wise and her online radio report.
The woman found dead along a Lawrence County road on the day before Christmas eve was the ex-wife of a doctor imprisoned for writing illegal painkiller prescriptions to his patients.
Lawrence County Coroner Russell Noga says autopsy results on 40-year-old Kristiana Wilkins were inconclusive, pending toxicology tests that will take weeks to complete.
New Castle Police say a baby nursery inside the home at 427 Galbreath St. served as another kind of nursery, too: a room where residents were growing and nurturing marijuana plants.
Police say they discovered the sophisticated pot growing operation during a Tuesday raid.
According to investigators, the plants were being grown in a closet in the baby's room when state, federal, Lawrence County and local authorities raided the house.
The new year brings a new district attorney to Lawrence County with Joshua Lamancusa taking the oath of office. He begins his four-year term after revealing to WCN 24/7 that he will hit the ground running as he tackles the backlog of criminal cases.
He says he will make changes in the office and staff to address that backlog.
He also recused himself from the county's high-profile murder case where the accused is a 12-year old Wampum boy.
Lamancusa pulled himself off the case explaining he had consulted with the boy's father last year. The new DA was serving as a private attorney when he was contacted by the father of then 11-year old Jordan Brown.
Brown was arrested last winter and charged as an adult for fatally shooting his dad's pregnant girlfriend. Now a judge will decide this month if the boy will be tried as an adult or if the case goes to juvenile court. The Pennsylvania Attorney General's office will step in to prosecute the case now that Lamancusa has taken himself off it.
The new DA says other cases and specific goals he mapped out during the election will keep him busy.
Lamancusa talks with WCN 24/7's Adam Plyler discussing a number of issues including the DA's message to citizens, crime fighters and criminals in our county.
A district judge in Mercer County has ordered man to stand trial on charges he burglarized a home after getting a ride to the crime scene from his mom.
That woman, 50-year-old Judith Martin, of Cochranton, still faces a preliminary hearing Feb. 3 on conspiracy and other charges she faces in the Jan. 13 break-in allegedly committed by her son, 20-year-old Robert Martin.
Agents from the PA Attorney General's Child Predator Unit say a New York man faces charges of allegedly arranging over the Internet to have sex with a 13-year old girl in Lawrence County. Police arrested the suspected Internet predator last week after he traveled to Lawrence County.
Investigators say the man is plumber from Aurora, New York. AG Tom Corbett says Jeffrey A. Kimmel allegedly used an Internet chat room to contact an undercover agent from the Child Predator Unit on January 13. At the time, the agent was using the online profile of a 13 year old girl from New Castle.
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